Our next door neighbor has a blue macaw, Nitro, that lives in their front tree. He does have a cage but he rarely choses to go in. He much prefers to talk to everyone passing by, and drives Braveheart crazy by calling his name or saying "no barking". My Mom brushes the front almost every morning and Nitro often flies over for a chat. NONE of the neighborhood cats messes with Nitro!
Hey you guys, what on earth are you going to do with all those bananas? We must have 20 or so 'nanas in the garden and we simply can't keep up with the amount they produce (Nitro comes in handy). We have seven different varieties, but I don't have a clue as to what they are except the apple bananas - our patch was inherited...
Play hookey,and tropical gardening in the greenhouse!
We really don't get very many bananas. If the tree does produce the flower, it just doesn't get pollenated enough. We only get about five to twelve bananas at a time. This year we only had a few trees produce bananas. I wish more of them would! I've been trying to find out how to pollenate them, so that we could have more!
Hope this picture is clear enough....
I had a apple banana,but lost it again trying to overwinter it,so tell me are they really good,and do they taste like a apple???
Glad Nitro is a good B&G,Macaw,most I've seen are pretty mean,and don't know why!!!
T77,I think you need to cut away most of the pups,because all the energy is directed into growing the pups and not the bananas,if it is a edible banana,they don't need pollinated,or so I've been told,and all my bananas in the greenhouse were never pollinated!
Well Don, put it this way - I wouldn't want to mess with him and those prehistoric looking feet he has. He mostly just flies over and sits in one of our trees and chatters away...
Apple bananas do have a slight taste of apples, they are not as sweet as some of the other varieties. Most people here love them, visitors go bananas over them.
Jeanne, looks like I need to send you some bugs or something...I have no idea what pollenates the bananas, could be the trade winds for all I know - must look that up...
Let me tell you about the birds and the bees and the apples in the trees,and a thing called pollination!!!!
I know spike's feet are huge,and when he grabs hold,he don't let go!!!!
You got to peel them away,and hope he's beak don't get you next!!!!!
Do you guys cut off the flower stalk? We do here, as soon as we have a decent enough bunch. They seem to fatten up and ripen much quicker with the flower head removed. The Philipino folks here eat the flowers heads. I am not sure if they cook them or what, but they must be good because they are always for sale at our Saturday morning market. Another thing to research!
Lol! Stick a banana in his beak!
Golly - it's just occured to me that you are both burning the midnight oil! It has to be 1am or so isn't it?
Don may have a point, so we may have to cut some of the babies away in the spring. So far they hadn't been a problem multiplying but they are getting kind of thick, so if that would help them to have bananas then it would serve a two fold purpose. We have about three different types, I think they are all edible.
A person about three streets over near where My Mom lives cut their banana tree down and it had a huge bunch of bananas on it. The garbage man didn't take it for awhile and finally the bananas yellowed. What a shame. (Ripened) Point is....why did they get soooooo many bananas and we don't!!!!!!!!!! Interesting!!!!!
No it's 12:05....Don is on vacation and I'm retired....but I do have to get in bed in a little while as my oldest granddaughter, 12, will be staying with me tomorrow. She had fever Sun 103.6, then yesterday it went down, and was down until this evening, when it shot back up to 102. So tomorrow she and I will be making a trip into the Dr's. for some antibiotics! Unfortunately she will also miss her Choir Christmas Program at school, so she is not going to be happy whatsoever!
I will try and make it a good day for her to cheer her up!!!! She is a very sweet girl, and talented if I may say so. She sings well. She can give me a solo tomorrow if she feels like it!!!!!
Jeanne
The plot thickens! Can't have anything to do with fertilizer - I have never put any on the 'nanas. Ours also have keikis all crowded in together, it has never occured to me to transplant them...bad 'nana mommy! Has to be something else too...
Spike loves nanners,he shares one with me every nite before bedtime!
Which I gotta get to the shower and shave,or momma won't let me in bed!!!!
Night Jeanne, you are supposed to be resting up yourself you know. Poor little tyke, hope she feels better tomorrow, sounds like flu going round?
Sleep tight!
Smart Momma!
Jeanne,has she got a cold or the flu,or just the high temperature?
Has she been out in a wooded area?
Nanners love cow manure,but chicken poop might work as well!!!LOL
Nope, no cow manure here either, but you should see what a whales droppings do for the garden!
I think it's probably a sinus infection....her throat is sore! It's this constant change in weather.....36 in the AM back in the high 60's or low 70's. She doesn't like to wear a jacket in the mornings and then remember to bring it home in the pm!
Good ole Texas weather!!!!!!!!! I did bring in my two strawberries and cream baby brugs for the night!!!! Along with RJ's papaya tree, some hibiscus, a couple plumerias, and a three baby bird of paradise that I raised from seed....a few more..... We're going to have to get ready to close up the canopy and hut, but then it is December, believe it or not.
This cold weather does put me in the mood to do a little shopping for the grandchildren. They haven't totally made up their minds so I have a few more days to rest before attacking the "journey" to wally world.
Take care and have a good night all......
PS Jen, the picture below is the cuttings you sent me......Haven't they grown???? See I'm a good brug Momma! Patting self on back! haha
Jeanne
Yes this up and down weather will do it for sure!!!
Brugs can take a little cooler weather,but cover them with a frost cloth,didn't think it got that cold down there this early!
They look great,your doing something right!
Nite!
Babies look great!
Night all!
Root tone and miracle grow potting soil.....water, rain, miracle grow liquid feed, prayer....
Right there on the prayer, Jeanne!
What are you doing up at this time of morning heaven??? Don't you know any one with any sense is sleeping? LOL
T77, you'd soon have dmail!
you have Dmail also!
You gals got to lay off that root tone,it's bad for you,but good for yor plants!!!! LOL
Looks like everyone was up pretty late last night. Who knew we had so many comediens...yeah!
Loved watching red skeleton!!!!
Not to fond of Uncle Melty thou!!!
And Jack Benny,wasn't he something!!!! Now Rodchester!!!
And the classic "I Love Lucy" where the rules were so strict that Ricky and Lucy had twin beds. Not kosher to show a double bed, too risque. Oh for the days of clean tv.
Afternoon everyone!
Oh .. a fun topic! Laughter is soooo cathartic!!! I love Sanford and Son and also The Honeymooners. Yes Chrisit, here are so many old clean tv comedy shows that I enjoy much more than "Friends" or even Jerry Seinfeld.
Tman, I hope all goes well for your eyes. Thanks for the tip on removing some of the pups to encourage fruiting.
Jeanne, thanks for your prayers...feeling much better now! Your grandaughter's throat will be too sore to sing.
BHM, those banana flowers are used in many South East Asian dishes. Some used them chopped in salads too. Also, the banana buds. I recall Mum using the bud, soaking them in salted water first before cooking.
Just got home from eye dr!
Legally blind!!But for the small sum of $535.00 I will be able to see again! Hooray!!!!!
And just because I wanted glass instead of plastic,they have to send them to Topeka Ks,
which is not even half the size Wichita is,because we don't do glass here much anymore,plastic world now!!!!So will be 8 days before I can officially see again!!!
Altho I can see just find with these old glasses,a whole year old!!!!
Now tomorrow go see the diabetic Dr!
More than likely going to get a good chewing on!!!!LOL
Awww TM, kisses on both cheeks for ya!
That is not a small sum. Knowing you, you are already calculating what you can do with that money for the GH!!! Well, your sense of smell will be more acute. So now you'd be able to recognise your blooms via scent!!
I detest insulin shots..make me gain more weight! I hear a joke a-coming from TM!!
LOL A woman who can read my mind!!Amazing!!!
We all have to weigh something,Like you I'm sure,I feel so sorry foe those skinny people,who just can't seem to gain an ounce!
So for the sake of all the skinny people in the world that wish to weigh a little more,I will take on such a burden,especially the women gender JUST to make them Happy!
And once again my efforts to help all those who want to be healthy!!!LOL
I just cut one flower off my nanners to see if they will ripen faster,can you still eat the flower after a couple months or only fresh?
TM, you got me rocking back and forth in my swivel chair, laughing hard!!! Yea, yea, raising my hot tea to all the skinnies out there. I'll put on that extra pound (not ounce) for y'all!!
Me think only the fresh ones. Being here too long have distant myself from my culture. There are now so many Asian dishes that I had missed since I left Singapore. I grow galangals too, and I know I can use the rhizomes for Asian cooking. But that's planticide to me!
Wow you have covered so much topic wise while I have been away (huge storm again ...inches! of rain) ...In Australia the bananas are picked while they are green or they have big blue bags placed over them.They ripen when put in a dark place.
Oh I love those pink nannas so pretty ...(I have seen them at the Zoo ...the Zoo is a wonderful place for rare and exotic plants .)
I think it must be a bit like avacados ...you know ....how they ripen a couple days after picking.
My brugs had seed pods on them (growing a bit longer every day)and I run out between storms to check that they are still there ...I am so excited ...first time ever!
Gee Tm so sorry about your glasses ...terrible ...I only need them for reading and the computer but I am totally lost without them ...be careful with those spare ones.
Yes the boy blossoms are used in salads I read that somewhere, whoever wrote it said it was an aquired taste :)
77 they said it is now official (radio) that honey is best for sore throats in children.I give her plenty of hot chicken soup ...it cures just about anything!
Ooops gotta go hubby calls
Oh goodness, whatever would I do without DG? Life would be so miserable.
As a kid I had bronchitis all winter. My teetotaling mother would make a hot tody. Honey, fresh lemon, TBS of rye whiskey. Guess it worked. Probably knocked me out.
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Had lots of honeys and whiskeys in my time,but never cured a sore throat!!!!LOL
How many here still have there tonsils??? I do!,don't know if thats good or bad these days!
Don't worry none,insurance should pay me back on my glasses,well a part of anyway!!
Been enjoying the day outside doing clean up,and shearing the evergreens,still have lots to do,and 63* outside,but trying to it it all in one day has plum tuckered me out,and I still have to grill some huge thick center cut pork chops,dawng pigs jumped in the frigerator,like the chickens did in Jenny's oven!!!! Fry up some tators,and steam some green beans,and bake a little bread,see heaven doing my part for all those skinny people around the globe!!!
Just read in a diabetic magazine,chrissy,kids down under are 40% heavier now than they were in 1997,do you find this to be true?
And the poor counties who people need insulin,even if they could afford to buy it don't have a refrigerator to store it,and China has 63 million people who are diabetic,compared to 29 million in the states,now thats a lot of diabetics,in just 2 countries!
Well gotta go gather all the trash tomorrows pick up day,funny Patti has a trash can in every room,and I always carry my trash,no matter where I am,to put it one trash container.Women you gotta love them,cause you can't live without them!!!
You're making me hungry, Don.
Y'all have fun chatting tonight. I will be out at my daughter's taking care of my granddaughter tomorrow. She can't go back to school until Thursday! The Dr. gave her a Zpac, salt gargle. Her fever is down, so hopefully it will stay that way.
Hope to be home tomorrow evening.
Jeanne
When this ought to drive you completely mad!!!
About 15 minutes and there done and on the table!!!LOL
